Tuesday, April 26, 2016

This year, the Sad and Rabid Puppies have done it again. Ten out of fifteen Hugo Award categories have been completely dominated by Puppy-endorsed nominees — double what the campaigns achieved in 2015. The Puppies have also secured three out of five nominations for Best Novel, three out of four nominations for Best Short-Form Dramatic Presentation, and three out of five nominations for Best Long-Form Editor.

In total, the Rabid Puppies swept six categories on their own, while a combination of Sad & Rabid puppy nominations swept a further four.

Some of the Rabid Puppies nominations this year — such as a My Little Pony episode for Best Short-Form Dramatic Presentation and a porn parody in Best Short Story — seem clearly intended as troll options, a demonstration of the Puppies’ power to exert their will on the awards.

That seems unlikely, considering that we have been repeatedly, and reliably, informed that the Puppies are irrelevant. I think the only convincing explanation is that no one can reasonably deny the literary merit of future science fiction classics such as "Space Raptor Butt Invasion".

This comment from Al was enough to make even a dark lord smile:

What is weird about all this as that in the entire spectrum of the culture wars a group of scifi nerds, fantasy geeks and video game enthusiasts are winning......they are actually taking ground back from the left and they aren't stopping for sh$t...these guys take scalps, burn their enemies bodies, and p!ss on their ashes and move on to the next target of total annihilation..they are unmerciful and brutal.........beautiful...many people on the right should take notice...this is a case study in winning and what winning is......something the right sorely needs to learn....

"they are actually taking ground back from the left and they aren't stopping for sh$t...these guys take scalps, burn their enemies bodies, and p!ss on their ashes and move on to the next target of total annihilation..they are unmerciful and brutal.........beautiful."

Seriously, that MLP episode is legit. I was most pleased to find it amongst Vox's recommendations. It caught my attention when my kids were watching it once and the next time they watched it I took control of the remote and paused it frequently to expound earnestly on the wisdom contained therein.

I'm disappointed that Golden Son and Somewhither didn't make the final ballot (at least according to the breitbart list, which I assume is accurate), as those were probably my two favorites to come out last year. But Uprooted and Cinder Spires are both solid (I haven't read Seveneves).

Pleased either way though. Going to watch all the PR engines start revving up here shortly. Will be an interesting next few months. What exactly can they even attack us with now? They used all the buzzwords up last year, and it just led to more people coming out against them.

Somewhither places abortion as the evil that distinguishes our world from others; that this work would endure greater resistance than space raptor butt invaders only speaks to the wickedness of our foes.

This is not a defeat, but a beacon that even in an enormous victory we have many miles to go.

As for minion #0010, I have gathered my paltry possessions: a gnarled bone of an sjw, a bronzed skull still stained with a few nourishing drops of the blood of our enemies, and take my place at the oars that we might cross the wine-dark seas to burn their villages and hear the lamentations of their cis-whales.

You trying to say you don't want to tell people, serious people about their nomination? Don't you see how destructive this would be to the Hugos. We are talking about total pulverization of the awards! The Hugos would become a mainstream JOKE. You are being short-sighted Mikey. Vox wants to burn the house down and salt the land these people one day raised their hideouts.

Other way around. Donald Trump, the Vox Day of Presidential elections.

OT. Mind blowing Global Warming news- http://www.thegwpf.com/josh-told-you-so/The entire planet is getting greener. It now takes only 65% of the arable land to feed twice the population of 1961.

And, from one of the founders of Greenpeace- http://www.thegwpf.com/28155/

Tonight I will demonstrate that human emissions of CO2 have already saved life on our planet from a very untimely end. That in the absence of our emitting some of the carbon back into the atmosphere from whence it came in the first place, most or perhaps all life on Earth would begin to die...

Yep. Thanks to "global warming", the Sahara desert has actually been shrinking. This is old news, but you won't hear it from the usual suspects: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090731-green-sahara.html